The Front yard was dedicated to pleasure viewing and flower gardens with the exception of the Strawberries lining both sides of boxwood hedges along the historic bluestone pathways. Heavy undertones of the ‘Picturesque Ideal’ were employed as every window became a living picture frame through which the garden views were created. Seven distinct garden rooms were developed including an Indigenous Edible Garden which took it’s inspiration from Marie Antoinette’s Cottage Gardens at Versailles. Edible elegance can be achieved by utilizing hedge rows as backdrops to limit the influx of outside species and seeds and then dwarf boxwood hedges to define, limit or provided triangulated compartments ala Versailles/Bagatelle that support the concealed raised vegetable growing areas behind them. Besides the hedgerows, everything else is edible.
